Though under the given circumstances, the CPM's desire to throw its weight behind efforts to dislodge the ``BJP-led coalition is understandable'', later the party may find it difficult to ``explain the wisdom behind such tactical stand to the people'', Mitra said in Deshhitaishi

, the political organ of the party.

Mitra warned the party against efforts to look for an alternative ``on unscrupulous terms, throwing the ideology to the winds.''

Mitra reminded the party that the Congress not only pushed the nation to ``the current political crisis,'' but as a party also became synonymous with the ``political corruption and fascist tactics which it practised without any qualms in the past''. Mitra also stressed that the Congress ``will continue with its old economic and political agenda if itreturned to power.''

Mitra warned that in the event of the Congress-led coalition being brought back to power by the Left, ``where is the guarantee that it would not reimpose a similar political and economic condition on the nation.''

``And it made the choice for the CPM in the given political situation all the more difficult,'' Mitra admitted. He said that even supporting ``a politically corrupt Congress from outside will expose the CPM to the threat of losing its ideological purity.'' It might even make the party's strict commitment to the ideology permanently ``vulnerable to the shortsighted and unprincipled political adjustments for short-term gains'', Mitra cautioned.

Cautioning ``the advocates of support to the Congress within the organisation of the ghost of Bofors which still haunts the Congress,'' he said ``the BJP might have kept the secrets of kickbacks to turn the tables on its opponents at the right moment.''

And ``if it does,'' which Mitra thinks the BJP will, ``then as a part of thatpolitical arrangement, what we'll tell people, how we will decide on our next political move'' Mitra asked party leaders.

Coming as it does, before the 16th party Congress scheduled to begin here on October 5th, Mitra's observations will only add to the discomfort of the group led by West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and party general secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet, advocating ``an issue-based support'' to the Congress coalition to dislodge the BJP.